Pulse of the Public
Pulse of the Public
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School Education Minister Madhu Bangarappa announced that Karnataka is evaluating a proposal to extend state-level teacher awards to private school educators and revise school hours to ease urban traffic.
A report by UN global fund Education Cannot Wait reveals that over 9,200 attacks on education occurred in 2024–25, depriving 93 million children worldwide of schooling.
Delhi International Airport Limited has lodged a formal police complaint against 63 social media accounts for circulating misleading and fake videos claiming severe waterlogging at the airport. The operator clarified that flight operations remained unaffected despite brief monsoon rain.
IIT Gandhinagar's Centre for Creative Learning has launched an experiential climate education initiative across 1,000 municipal schools in Gujarat, enabling students to construct their own weather instruments.
Sudan's Education Ministry has officially released the 2026 Sudanese Secondary School Certificate exam results, registering a 69.6% pass rate in the academic stream despite severe war and infrastructural disruptions.
Indian Railways' Passenger Reservation System processed over 22.26 lakh ticket bookings on September 7, 2026, marking the highest single-day count in its history.
Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar launched ELC 2.0 and ECINET initiatives aimed at embedding democratic awareness and voter education in schools and colleges across India.
India has administered over 80 lakh (8 million) HPV vaccine doses under its national health drive targeting 14-year-old adolescent girls. States like Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Mizoram achieved 100 percent coverage of their target cohorts.
The Karnataka Department of School Education and Literacy has instituted a statewide probe into reports of defective shoes and socks distributed to students under the Vidyavikas Scheme. The Karnataka Upa Lokayukta has also initiated a suo motu case regarding allegations of sub-standard quality and administrative lapses.
The Karnataka Higher Education Department is launching a ₹9 crore scheme to provide three months of free online competitive examination coaching to 90,000 eligible candidates.
ISRO has successfully executed a flight acceptance hot test of its indigenously developed CE20 cryogenic engine at an uprated thrust of 220 kN in Mahendragiri. The landmark test boosts the payload capacity of the LVM3 rocket and marks a crucial step for the Gaganyaan mission.
The Karnataka Higher Education Department has notified draft rules proposing a 15% horizontal reservation in government seats for professional courses, dividing it between rural government school students and other rural candidates.